KUNSTMUSEUM SOLOTHURN
Berge versetzen. Landschaften in der Sammlung
26.3.2024 – 9.3.2025
Sans titre, 2007
Photo collage / 23,3 x 24,7 cm
Collection: Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Mit Werken von Eva Aeppli, Cuno Amiet, Julian Charrière, François Diday, Hans Emmenegger, Otto Frölicher,
Giovanni Giacometti, Michel Grillet, Ferdinand Hodler, Iris Hutegger, Luzia Hürzeler, Albert Lugardon,
Ingeborg Lüscher, Claudio Moser, Oberrheinischer Meister, Boris Rebetez, Sigismund Righini, Albert Trachsel,
Félix Vallotton und Caspar Wolf
VON BARTHA BASEL
New ideas for other Times
08 March - 18 May 2024
Citizen II, 2024
Oxidized copper
108 x 58 x 11 cm
With: Caroline Achaintre, Ricardo Alcaide, Per Bak Jensen, Joachim Bandau, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Olaf Breuning,
Gianni Colombo, Anna Dickinson, Marianne Eigenheer, Barry Flanagan, Athene Galiciadis, Gerhard von Graevenitz,
Terry Haggerty, Rebecca Horn, Imi Knoebel, Perrine Lievens, Bernhard Luginbühl, Mike Meiré, Anita Muçolli,
Maurizio Nannucci, Aurélie Nemours, Sarah Oppenheimer, Nam June Paik, Anton Prinner, Boris Rebetez,
Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Francisco Sierra, Florian Slotawa, Ted Stamm, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Superflex,
Bernar Venet, Claudia Wieser, and John Wood & Paul Harrison
KUNSTMUSEUM THUN
Not my Circus, not my Monkeys
16 September - 03 December 2023
Regarde et je regarde aussi, 2001
Mixed media, 37 x 29 x 27 cm
Privat collection Basel
The thematic exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Thun assembles works by contemporary artists who draw on circus motifs.
In evoking its formal vocabulary and emotionality, they demonstrate how the circus with its unique repertoire offers a model
for questioning our own present-day social conditions, a way to lay bare cultural power structures and marginalization as
well as political and historical filters.
Groupshow with:
Kathryn Andrews, Miriam Bäckström, Istvan Balogh, Beni Bischof, Barbara Breitenfellner, Mona Boschàr, Michael
Dannenmann, Latifa Echakhch, Nicola Hicks, Zilla Leutenegger, Taus Makhacheva, Dieter Meier, Yves Netzhammer,
Tal R, Augustin Rebetez & Martin Zimmermann, Boris Rebetez, Ugo Rondinone, Niklaus Rüegg, Francisco Sierra,
Norbert Tadeusz, William Wegmann
Co-curated by Helen Hirsch and Katrin Sperry
• Link to the exhibition publication:
Not my circus, not my monkeys, Kunstmuseum Thun - Hirmer Verlag
VIAS D'ART, PONTRESINA
Kunstwege - Vias d'art, Pontresina 2023
Rethink destinations
24 June - 19 Octobre 2023
Trans Europe Express, 2023
Powder coated steel, 260 x 120 x 345 cm
Boris Rebetez's new sculpture Trans Europe Express, created especially for the open-air exhibition along the legendary
Pontresina - Cavaglia railway line, refers on the one hand to the legendary Trans Europ Express train that ran from the
south to the north of Europe from 1957 to 1995 and on the other hand to the avant-garde album Trans Europe Express
recorded by the electronic music band Kraftwerk in 1976.
The sculpture is intended to be a metaphorical evocation of mechanical movement while at the same time acting as
street furniture by being used as a public bench. in contrast to classical self-centred sculpture, this sculpture offers a
point of view and directs the gaze towards the outside environment.
A. Not, 2023
Groupshow with:
Flurina Badel | Jérémie Sarbach, Alan Bogana, Karin Karinna Bühler, Markus Bürgi, Gianin Conrad, Pawel Ferus,
Selina Frölicher|Micha Bietenhader, Gilles Furtwängler, Yvo Hartmann,Tarik Hayward, Catrin Lüthi K, Boris Rebetez,
Ines Marita Schärer, Annina Thomann, Corsin Vogel, Pascale Wiedemann | Daniel Mettler
Curated by Benno Conrad
KUNSTHAUS BASELLAND
Kunsthaus Baselland
The Heart
3 February - 31 December, 2023
Banc publique (Campus universitaire de São Paulo), 2008 - 2021
Ink and pencil on paper, 56 x 76 cm
With: Silvia Bächli, Martin Chramosta, Anne-Lise Coste, Rochelle Feinstein, Gina Folly, Katrin Freisager, Pia Fries
Franziska Furter, Serge Hasenböhler, Eric Hattan, Thomas Hauri, Sabine Hertig, Simone Holliger, Jan Hostettler
Esther Hunziker, Jan Kiefer, Sandra Knecht, Dirk Koy, Rebecca Kunz, Doris Lasch, Max Leiß, Maude Léonard-Contant
Marlene McCarty, Laura Mietrup, Jonathan Monk, Claudia & Julia Müller, Edit Oderbolz, Itziar Okariz, Sarah Oppenheimer
Camillo Paravicini, Boris Rebetez, Maja Rieder, Kilian Rüthemann, Jürg Stäuble, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger,
Bruno Seitz, Julia Steiner, Katharina Anna Wieser, Anna Winteler
SUPER, WIEN
Supermodels
15.05.2023 – 26.05.2023
Sentence Nr. X, 2022
Steel, lacker, 22 x 15 x 13 cm
Groupshow with:
Nicoleta Auersperg, Amelie Bachfischer, Anna Bochkova, Martin Chramosta, Bartosz Dolhun, Sophie Dvořák,
Judith Fegerl, Werner Feiersinger, Karsten Födinger, Andreas Fogarasi, Franziska Furter, Thomas Geiger,
Jennifer Gelardo, Florian Graf, Lucas Herzig, Jeronim Horvat, Cyril Hübscher, Chris Hunter, Monika Janulevičiūtė,
Clare Kenny, Alice Könitz, Sonia Leimer, Cornelia Lein, Max Leiss, Sophia Mairer, Luiza Margan, Christian Mayer,
Laura Mietrup, Rainer Noebauer, Klara Paterok, Bianca Pedrina, Manfred Pernice, Bianca Phos, Johanna Pichlbauer,
Heti Prack, PRINZ, Boris Rebetez, Klemens Schillinger, Stefanie Seibold, Titania Seidl, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair,
Kathrin Sonntag, Rainer Stadlbauer, Esther Stocker, Hiroshi Takizawa, Lukas Thaler, Sofie Thorsen, Johanna
Charlotte Trede, Julian Turner, Marianne Vlaschits, Christoph Weber, Katharina Anna Wieser
Curated by Bianca Pedrina
ETABLISSEMENT D'EN FACE, BRUXELLES
Big Sale Show
09.012 – 31.12.2022, Etablissement d'en face, Bruxelles
Union, 2019
Corten steel, 23 x 65 x 37 cm
Edition of 3
With: Danai Anesiadou, Théo Audoire, Angélique Aubrit & Ludovic Beillard, Abel Auer, Nairy Baghramian,
Nick Bastis, Judith Bernstein, Guillaume Bijl, Aline Bouvy, Jakob Brugge, Sarah Caillard, Ryan Cullen,
François Curlet, Christophe de Rohan Chabot, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Hugo Dïner, Alec De Busschère,
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Douglas Eynon, Dorota Jurczak, Olivier Foulon, Gaillard & Claude, Sophie Giraux,
Karl Holmqvist, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François, Ana Jotta, Henrik Olai Kaarstein,
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Marc Kokopeli, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Gijs Milius, Marlie Mul,
Rafael Moreno, Nancy Moreno & Régis Jocteur Monrozier, Sophie Nys, Yuki Okumura, Jurgen Ots, Gauthier
Oushoorn, Claudia Radulescu, Boris Rebetez, Thomas Ruff, Zin Taylor, Mitja Tusek, Michael Van den Abeele,
Stefke Vercammen, Pieter Vermeersch, Bernard Voïta, Peter Wächtler and Amelie von Wulffen
KUNSTMUSEUM SOLOTHURN
Tiefenschärfe
29.01.2022 – 24.04.2022
Suprême, 2021
Bronze mirror / 172 x 180 x 146 cm
Collection: Kunstmuseum Solothurn
Bei der formalen Schärfe der Exponate kommen zum philosophischen Spiel der Täuschung auch Ernst und
Schrecken, die aus der Konfrontation mit unterschiedlichen Zeit- und Weltbildern wachsen können.
Mit Werken von:
Adolf Dietrich
Friederike Feldmann
Franz Gertsch
Sofia Hultén
Simone Kappeler
Annette Kelm
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
Boris Rebetez
Hans Staub
Niklaus Stoecklin
Jakob Tuggener
Félix Vallotton
Bernard Voïta
Curated by Andreas Fiedler and Christoph Vögele
• Link to the exhibition publication:
Tiefenschärfe, Kunstmuseum Soltohurn - Scheidegger & spiess
KUNSTHALLE BASEL
Kunsthalle Book Day
04. Dec 2021 / Sat / 11:30 – 16:30
with readings, talks, and a performance
Presentation of four releases by Mark Pezinger Books
Hellfeld by Doris Lasch
Calypso Cave by Stefan Karrer
Photography as Motif by Caroline Heider, Ruth Horak, Lisa Rastl and Claudia Rohrauer
Photo collages by Boris Rebetez
Thursday 2 December 2021 / 6 - 8 pm, Materialismus, Zürich
Saturday 4 December 2021 / 1.30 - 2.30 pm, Kunsthalle Basel during the Kunsthalle Book Day
FILIALE BASEL
Im Massstab. Modelle für grössere Kunstprojekte
03.06 – 06.06.2021
Filiale, Basel
Doris Lasch & Boris Rebetez, Celeste, 2019
Art in public space, project for a new residential area « Jupiter » in Reinach
Forthcoming realisation: 2025
Im Massstab. Modelle für grössere Kunstprojekte
Zu sehen sind Modelle, die für das Entwicklen von Projekten für Kunst und Architektur oder Kunst im
öffentlichen Raum entstanden sind.
Idee und Realisation: Eric Hattan
Mit Edith Oderbolz, Franziska Furter, Jürg Stäuble, Silvia Bächli, Claudia & Julia Müller, Guido Nussbaum, Simone Holliger,
Markus Müller, Eric Hattan, Oliver Senn, Max Leiß, Markus Schwander, Doris Lasch, Boris Rebetez, Karsten Födinger,
Urs Aeschbach, Tina Z'Rotz, Renate Buser, Renée Levi, Géraldine Honauer, Monica Studer & Christoph van den Berg,
Peter Brunner- Brugg, Anselm Stalder, Hagar Schmidhalter, Mathis Vass, Thomas Hauri, Judith Kakon
VON BARTHA BASEL
Showroom - Presentation
06.03 – 17.04.2021, von Bartha Basel
Front: Stadium Moebius,, 2021 - Varnished wood, steel / 12 x 64 x 46 cm
Back: Models for Hong Kong Portal and Sentence / variable sizes
• Link to the exhibition website
KUNSTHALLE PALAZZO, LIESTAL & ARCHITEKTUR FORUM BERN
Hans Wilhem Auer - Bundeshaus und Palazzoarchitekt
22.08 – 11.10.2020, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal
Wiedereröffnung: 21.12.2020 – 27.03.2021, Architektur Forum Bern
Enseigne Nr.6, 2018
Painted steel /120 x 52 x 66 cm
Die Ausstellung HANS WILHELM AUER – BUNDESHAUSARCHITEKT ist jedoch nicht ausschliesslich auf die Epoche
des Historismus in der 2. Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts fokussiert. Denn Auers Architektur wird gegenwärtig und zwar
in all ihrer Ambivalenz. Sie tritt in einen spannungsvollen Dialog mit Werken von zeitgenössischen KünstlerInnen.
Mit :David Aebi, Giro Annen, Nino Baumgartner, Ariane Epars, Beat Feller, Athene Galiciadis, Andreas & Karin Enz Gerber,
Matthias Gnehm, Daniel Göttin, Christian Grogg, Thomas Hauri, Valentin Hauri, Jürg Hugentobler, Karen Amanda Moser,
Roberta Müller, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, Vaclav Pozarek, Boris Rebetez, Pavel Schmidt, Sibylla Walpen, Nancy Wälti.
• Kuratiert von Massimiliano Madonna und Konrad Tobler
VON BARTHA, BASEL
The Backward Glance can be a Glimpse into the future
05.09 – 07.11.2020
von Bartha Basel
Enseigne Nr. 7, 2020
Painted steel / 55 x 62 x 34 cm
Private collection Düsseldorf
Gallery von Bartha celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020 with:
Marina Adams, Ricardo Alcaide, Christian Andersson, Olle Baertling, Marion Baruch, Andrew Bick, Martin Blaszko,
Sándor Bortnyik, Lygia Clark, Anna Dickinson, Theo van Doesburg, Viking Eggeling, Camille Graeser, Julia Gruner,
Gerhard von Graevenitz, Terry Haggerty, Mary Heilmann, Auguste Herbin, Enio Iommi, Iman Issa, Konrad Klapheck,
Imi Knoebel, Gyula Kosice, Yves Laloy, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse, Mike Meiré, Landon Metz,
László Moholy-Nagy, François Morellet, Aurélie Nemours, Karim Noureldin, Sarah Oppenheimer, Carmelo Arden Quin,
Boris Rebetez, Francisco Sierra, Florian Slotawa, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Tinguely,
Georges Vantongerloo, Marie Vieira, Claudia Wieser, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Beat Zoderer
• Curated by Beat Wismer
ENTER ART FAIR, COPENHAGEN
Enter Art Fair
Aug 27 – Aug 30 2020
Tunnelfabrikken - Nordhavn, Copenhagen
Small window, 2016
Copper, polished / 69 x 40 x 0.4 cm (variable)
With works by:
Christian Andersson, Anna Dickinson, Terry Haggerty, Imi Knoebel, Mike Meiré, Landon Metz,
Boris Rebetez, Florian Slotawa, Bob and Roberta Smith, Superflex
SPACE25
Project 1
18.06 – 10.07.2020, space25, Basel
Anticipation XXII (Collector's home), 2016
Ink on paper / 55 x 75 cm
Group show with:
Franziska Furter, Eric Hattan, Claudia & Julia Müller, Boris Rebetez, Jürg Stäuble, Julia Steiner, Peter Steinmann
• Curated by Peter Steinmann
ARTGENEVE 2019
Institution & special exhibitions
Guest 2019: Kunsthaus Baselland
30.01 – 03.02.2019, Palexpo Geneva
with:
Markus Amm, Doris Lasch, Boris Rebetez
• Curated by Ines Goldbach
KUNSTRAUM BADEN
RAUMGESCHICHTEN
03.11.2018 – 03.03.2019, Kunstraum Baden
Untitled, 2007
Photo collage / 19,1 x 12,9 cm
Collection: Kunstsammlung Baden
Group show with:
Marius Brühlmeier, Esther Ernst, Andreas Hofer, Boris Rebetez, Alex Spichale, Gianluca Trifilo & Sabine Trüb
• Curated by Claudia Spinelli
BALTSPROJECTS ZURICH
Models of thought
12.10 – 02.12.2018, BALTSprojects Zürich
Topique Nr. 2, 2013
Lime wood, glass, color filter, metal, lack / 143 x 125 x 69 cm
Group show with:
Thomas Hauri, Peter Märkli, Thea Möller, Boris Rebetez, Philipp Schaerer, Hagar Schmidhalter
• Curated by Monika Annen
KUNSTHAUS BASELLAND - FOUNDATION JOAN MIRO BARCELONA
Beehave
14.9 – 11.11.2018, Kunsthaus Baselland Muttenz
Atlas, 2014
Art in architecture project, social housing Zürich
Unrealized proposal for the production of honey on the roof of the building.
The honey bee — we know about its important role as a useful insect and pollinator, but equally as a biological indicator
of environmental change. The disproportionally significant part it plays in ecosystems is becoming better known, not least
because it is under threat. On the other hand, neurobiologists study these insects in order to understand how communication
functions between nerve cells. But what part do they play in art?
Group show with:
Brigham Baker, Mirko Baselgia, Joseph Beuys, Björn Braun, Enrique Fontanilles, Mike Hentz, Leiko Ikemura,
Sandra Knecht, Jan Kopp, Carmen E. Kreis, Xavi Manzanares & Alex Muñoz, Marta Margnetti, Joan Miró,
Meret Oppenheim, Luis Fernando Ramírez Celis, Boris Rebetez, Peter Regli, Toni Serra (Abu Ali), Till Velten,
Pep Vidal, Philip Wiegard, Katharina Anna Wieser and Andrea Wolfensberger
• Curated by Ines Goldbach and Martina Millà
• Link to the exhibition publication:
Beehave, Kunsthaus Baselland & Fondation Mirò - Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien
KUNST RAUM RIEHEN
20 Jahre Kunstraum Riehen
1.9 – 28.10.2018, Kunstraum, Riehen
Dérive, 2014
Gouache, ink on paper / 55 x 75 cm
Collection jurassienne des beaux-arts
Skepsis, 2018
Metal, acryl paint / 180 x 120 x 120 cm
Group show with:
Annette Amberg, Claudia Comte, Yang Fudon, Florian Graf, Raphael Hefti, Rodrigo Hernàndez, Karin Hueber,
Tobias Kaspar, Tobias Madison, Muda Mathis/Sus Zwick/Fränzi Madörin, Kaspar Müller, Markus Müller,
Boris Rebetez, Ugo Rondinone, Kilian Rüthemann, Yves Scherer, Monica Studer/Christoph van den Berg,
Jürg Stäuble, Hannah Weinberger, Pedro Wirz
• Curated by Kiki Seiler-Michalitsi
OSAGE ART FOUNDATION HONG KONG
Interval in space II
15.12.2017 – 28.02.2018, Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Portal, 2017
Aluminium / 230 x 280 x 100 cm (variable)
Back: Matthias Liechti, Zilla Leutenegger
Courbe, 2017
Painted steel, Plexiglas / 24 x 32 x 53 cm
br> "The collaborative exhibition ‘Interval in Space’ reminds us of the question of globalization and the local
in characterizing contemporary culture. As such, the exhibition shows us that while there are common
traits that inform all modern and contemporary artistic practice, there are also significant differences.
No more so are these differences evident than in placing Asian and European artists together"...
Group show with:
Au Hoi Lam, Nadim Abbas, Sarah Lai, Lee Kit and Kingsley Ng, Beat Feller, Zilla Leutenegger,
Matthias Liechti, Boris Rebetez, Judith Fegerl.
• Curated by Harald Kraemer, Charles Merewether and Janine Stoll
NAIRS FUNDAZIUN
Interval in space I
21.07.2017 – 29.10.2017, Fundaziun Nairs, Switzerland
Small window,2016
Copper, polished / 69 x 40 x 0.4 cm
Nairs Portal, 2016
Steel, paint / 320 x 180 x 160 cm (variable)
Group show with:
Au Hoi Lam, Nadim Abbas, Sarah Lai, Lee Kit and Kingsley Ng, Beat Feller, Zilla Leutenegger,
Matthias Liechti, Boris Rebetez, Judith Fegerl.
• Curated by Harald Kraemer, Charles Merewether and Janine Stoll
GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG DER ETH – HELMHAUS ZURICH
Eternal present
Contemporary Art from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich
24 February – 17 April 2017 : Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich and Helmhaus Zürich
Untitled, 2001. Photo collage from the serie Walking Day
Collection: Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich
The ETH Zürich’s Collection of Prints and Drawings includes some 160,000 fine artworks on paper from the
16th century to the present day. It continues to develop – also in the field of contemporary art, where it acts
as a for the latest developments by acquiring contemporary works. The exhibition “Eternal Present” marking
its 150th anniversary focuses on prints, photographs and drawings which have been produced during the
past twenty years and which have been absorbed into the collection.
• Curated by Paul Tanner, Linda Schädler and Simon Maurer
Group show with:
Yann Amstutz, Emmanuelle Antille, Ian Anüll, Silvia Bächli, Baltensperger + Siepert, Marc Bauer,
Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Breu, Pablo Bronstein, Jake und Dinos Chapman, David Nicholas Chieppo,
Silvie Defraoui, Peter Emch, Sylvie Fleury, Francesca Gabbiani, Gilgian Gelzer, Florian Graf, Mireille Gros,
Fabrice Gygi, Alexander Hahn, Pascal Häusermann, Candida Höfer, David Hominal, San Keller, Per Kirkeby,
Zilla Leutenegger, Alois Lichtsteiner, Lutz&Guggisberg, Jean-Luc Manz, Francine Mury, Raymond Pettibon,
Boris Rebetez, Mario Sala, Matias Spescha, Albrecht Schnider, Kerim Seiler, Roman Signer, James Turrell,
Luc Tuymans, Christian Vetter, Cécile Wick.
VON BARTHA
Von Bartha Showroom
01.02 – 02.03.2017, Anticipations drawings
Anticipation XXXII (Shore), 2017
Ink on paper, 55 x 75 cm
Private collection Basel
The ink drawings entitled "Anticipations" by Boris Rebetez are graphic interpretations of the artist's personal
photographic archive. This series, which should eventually count 100 original drawings in the future, is an
attempt to fictionalize the "photographic reality" through an analogous medium in order to open up a new
common mental space for the viewer.
Tex: Alex Not, 2022
EASY!UPSTREAM MUNICH
Menthaphisica, 1 – 17 september 2016, Easy!upstream Munich
Boris Rebetez, Environment and the establishment of a way of life, 2009
Ink on paper / 55 x 75 cm
Collection d’art de la Confédération Suisse
Group show with:
Aribert von Ostrowski, Boris Rebetez, Catrin Steck, Denise Flamme, Johannes Tassilo Walter,
Jonas von Ostrowski, Max Ernst, Niko Abramidis & NE, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Tobias Donat
• Curated by Konstantin Lannert
VON BARTHA BASEL
Sitting on a branch
29 january – 26 march 2016
from left: Claudia Wieser, Doris Lasch, Boris Rebetez (pillar)
from left: Boris Rebetez, David Thorpe, Bernard Voïta
from left: Aglaia Konrad, Doris Lasch (back) , Bernard Voïta
Boris Rebetez, Mur I, 2015
Watercolour on paper, 148 x 258 cm
“If a space in which one finds oneself becomes an art object, then the visitor himself is in the middle of the artwork,
he or she becomes a part of it and is, to an extent, also exhibit within it.”
Group show with:
Daniel Robert Hunziker, Aglaia Konrad, Doris Lasch, Boris Rebetez, David Thorpe, Bernard Voïta, Claudia Wieser
• Curated by Boris Rebetez
KUNSTHAUS BASELLAND
Ueberzeichnen
18.9 – 15.11.2015
Anticipation XIII (Airport café), 2014
Ink on paper / 55 x 75 cm
Private collection Zürich
Group show with:
Anna B. Wiesendanger, Boris Rebetez, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Jakob, Cécile Hummel, Claudia und Julia Müller,
Eric Hattan, Fred Sandback, Jürg Stäuble, Karim Noureldin, Lena Eriksson, Maja Rieder, Miriam Sturzenegger,
Robert Estermann, Silvia Bächli, Stalder Anselm, Therese Bolliger
• Curated by Ines Goldbach and Cécile Hummel
BEX & ARTS
Emergences
1 juin – 5 octobre 2014, Parc Szilassy Bex
AIR & WATER, 2014
Brick, mortar / 150 x 110 x 170 cm
The sculpture AiIR&WATER is inspired in part by the industrial architecture of the late 19th century, and more
specifically by the Arts and Crafts movement that emerged in England at that time. A fundamental architectural
building block, or mathematical sum, AIR & WATER is also, in contrast, made up of words that resonate directly
with the context of the park and the surrounding nature. The designated elements, 'air' and 'water', inscribe the
work in a poetic dimension where the formal and graphic signs, letters and words, convey the idea of formless-
ness and fluidity. The word AIR remains suspended, while WATER disappears into the ground, suggesting a
complementary movement, close to natural physical phenomena.
• Curated by Noémie Enz, Jessica Schüpbar
• Link to exhibition publication:
Bex&Art, Emergences - Editior: art&fiction
KUNSTHALLE BASEL
Warum ist Landschaft schön?
1. Dec 2013 – 5. Jan 2014
Exibition view: with Gina Folly (front), Boris Rebetez (back), Raoul Müller (right)
L‘année des treize mois (Octobre), 2013
Watercolour on paper / each 156 x 114 cm (serie of 13)
Untitled (photo collage), 2001
Photo collage / 12 x 16 cm
The exhibition brings together works by artists who all share an interest in landscapes, spaces and environments.
It takes its title from the essay of the same name by Lucius Burckhardt, the Basel sociologist, planning theorist
and architect, who explores the question of what landscape is – namely a construction. Burckhardt suggests that
landscape exists not as a phenomenon of the environment, but arises in the imagination of the person looking at it.
This way of looking is governed by a process of selection: only by means of this selection process – via exclusion,
filtering and re-combination – does the picture of a landscape take shape. As a way of seeing, subjective perception
also enables movement and positioning in the landscape to become part of the creative process.
The artists at Kunsthalle Basel take account of this and direct their view at subsidiary motifs and everyday vistas, at
architecture that determines our surroundings, and likewise at natural features and at experienced, appropriated
and interiorized space. The results are personal topographies and narratives about places that are familiar to us all,
and all of which - astonishingly - are beautiful. For that is Lucius Burckhardt’s conclusion: it is impossible to
generate an ugly image of landscape.
Group show with:
Hans-Rudolf Fitze, Gina Folly, Jonas Hänggi, David Heitz, Rut Himmelsbach, Jan Hostettler,
Cécile Hummel, Georgine Ingold, Werner von Mutzenbecher, Raoul Müller, Boris Rebetez and works
from the collection of Basler Kunstverein.
• Curated by Adam Szymczyk, Ruth Kissling, Fabian Schöneich
LUDLOW 38 NEW YORK
Celluloid brush
14.7 - 1.9.2013
Poster for the movie: Surviving Picasso, 2010
Gouache on paper / 75 x 55 cm
Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is pleased to present Celluloid Brushes:
An Anthology of the Filmic Perception of the Artist from 1942 till Today...
• Curated by Etablissement d'en face (Margot Vanheusden)
MUSEE D'ART DE PULLY
Prix Irène Reymond 2006 -2011
24.5 - 5.8.2012 Musée d'art de Pully
Union, 2012
Raw steel / 23 x 65 x 37 cm
Group show with:
Manon Bellet, Ignazio Bettua, Kim Seob Boninsegni, Joëlle Flumet, Christian Gonzenbach, Alexandre Joly, Vincent Kohler,
Jérôme Leuba, Luc Marelli, Luc Mattenberger, Boris Rebetez, Delphine Reist, Didier Rittener, Christian Robert-Tissot
VON BARHA BASEL
Off the beaten track
2.6 - 14.7.2012
Reflection as protection, 2012
Stainless steel, aluminium / 320 x 320 x 45 cm
Privat collection Basel
Group show with:
Christian Andersson, Charlotte Beaudry, Andrew Bick, Terry Haggerty, John Wood/Paul Harrisson,
Daniel Robert Hunziker, Clare Kenny, Jan Kiefer, Perrine Lievens, Mike Meiré, Sirous Namazi,
Karim Noureldin, Sarah Oppenheimer, Boris Rebetez, Magnus Thierfelder, Bernar Venet, Beat Zoderer
curated by: Lena Friedli and Stefan von Bartha
WITTE DE WITH ROTTERDAM
Celluloid brush
01 - 15 february 2012
• Curated by Etablissement d'en face
AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS
Voici un dessin suisse
29.01.2011 – 25.04.2011, Musée Rath Geneva - Kunsthaus Aarau
Instability of a landscape, 2004
Pencil on wall, mirror sheet, window frame in plexiglass with A4 drawing / Installation, variable
Climat, 2002
Pencil on paper, window frame in plexiglass / 21 x 27.9 cm, frame: 25 x 32 cm
Collection: Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich
Groupshow with: Silvia Bächli, Josse Bailly, Katia Bassanini, Marc Bauer, Sabina Baumann, Kim Seob Boninsegni,
Silvia Buonvicini, Olaf Breuning, David Chieppo, Anne-Lise Coste, Jean Crotti, Andreas Dobler, Robert Estermann,
Urs Fischer, Joëlle Flumet, Franziska Furter, Marcel Gähler, Vidya Gastaldon, Monica Germann / Daniel Lorenzi,
Ingo Giezendanner, Alex Hanimann, Nic Hess, huber.huber, Alain Huck, Robert Ireland, Stephan Landry,
Zilla Leutenegger, Genêt Mayor, Claudia & Julia Müller, Damián Navarro, Yves Netzhammer, Karim Noureldin,
Amy O’Neill, Peter Radelfinger, Boris Rebetez, Marta Riniker-Radich, Didier Rittener, Ugo Rondinone, Denis Savary,
Loredana Sperini, Ante Timmermans, Andro Wekua
• Curated by Julie Enckel-Juillard and Madeleine Schuppli
• Link to exhibition publication:
Voici un dessin suisse, 2011 - Editor: jrp | Editions
ETABLISSEMENT D'EN FACE BRUSSELS
CELLULOID BRUSHES
25.3 - 23.4..2011
An Anthology of the Filmic Perception of the Artist from 1942 till Today, a project by Etablissement d’en Face.
Groupshow with:
Saâdane Afif, Danai Anesiadou, Leonor Antunes, Abel Auer, Thomas Bayrle, James Beckett, Aline Bouvy &
John Gillis, Wolfgang Breuer, Marco Bruzzone, Ben Cain, Michael Callies, David Catherall, François Curlet,
Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Jos de Gruyter, Donuts, Jana Euler, David Evrard, Loretta Fahrenholz, Michel François,
Olivier Foulon, Patrice Gaillard & Claude, Kendell Geers, Manuel Gnam, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Franciska
Lambrechts, Doris Lasch, Hans Friedrich Lissman, Gareth Long, Hans-Christian Lotz, Valerie Mannaerts,
Sophie Nys, Jurgen Ots, Benoit Platéus, Boris Rebetez, Jimmy Robert, Anne Speier, Robert Suermondt,
Derek Sullivan, Zin Taylor, Erik Thys, Harald Thys, Robin Vanbesien, Michael Van Den Abeele, Richard Venlet,
Bernard Voita & Mitja Tusek, Boy Vereecken, Gert Verhoeven, Pieter Vermeersch, Danh Vo, Leen Voet,
Peter Wächtler, Stefan Wilke, Stephen Wilks, Barbara Woutermartens.
• Curated by Etablissement d'en face
W139 AMSTERDAM
Wat is / wat zou kunnen
4 Feb – 12 Mar 2006
Montagne (after Giotto), 2004
Bronze cast, 18 x 35 x 33 cm
Montagne (after Gerard David), 2006
Bronze cast / 19 x 32 x 21 cm
Group show with:
Armando Andrade Tudela, Virginie Bailly, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Francis Denys, Manuel Depoorter, Marjolijn Dijkman,
Pieter Dobbelsteen, Kristof Van Gestel, Frank Koolen, Lars Kwakkenbos, Asier Mendizabal, Jens Nippert, Martijn Olie,
Falke Pisano, Boris Rebetez, Joe Scanlan, Marien Schouten, Maud Vandeveire, Reinaart Vanhoe, Dirk Zoete
• Curated by Kristof van Gestel
SWISS INSTITUTE NEW YORK
Tracking Suburbia
13 sept - 22 oct 2005
Assiettes, 1992 - 93 (Serie of 10)
Enamel on plaster cast / ø 27 x 2 cm
Group show with:
Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Urs Lühti, Boris Rebetez and Jean-Frédéric Schnyder
• Curated by Paul Tanner
MOTIERS - ART EN PLEIN AIR
MÔTIERS - ART EN PLEIN AIR
June - september 2003
HLM en campagne, 2003 (destroyed)
Painted wood / 140 x 150 x 350 cm
CIRCUIT LAUSANNE
Duo show
Stoop, Karim Noureldin & Boris Rebetez
10.04 - 31.06 2003
Untitled (photo collage), 2002
Color print / 110 x 163 cm
Collection jurassienne des beaux-arts
À partir de collages photographiques, Boris Rebetez recompose des paysages, comme autant d’assemblages
d’images provenant d’horizons et de sources différents. Karim Noureldin présente quant à lui deux sculptures
que l’on peut aussi appréhender comme des maquettes. Elles ont été fabriquées de mémoire. L’une représente
un aéroport existant et l’autre le village natal de l’artiste.
• Curated by Karim Noureldin
STUK LEUVEN
Split & pick up
March - april 2003
Untitled (photo collage), 2003 (site specific)
Inkjet prints placed on window / 350 x 900 cm
Group show with:
Michael Van Den Abeele, Koen De Decker, Boris Rebetez - Gabriël Lester, Arnaud Hendrickx
• Curated by Michael van den Abeele
MUSEUM IM BELLPARK KRIENS
Zeichnen. Eine Konfiguration. Teil 1
11. Januar bis 9. März 2003
Abri antiatomique, 1995 (Serie of 4)
Pencil on paper / 21 x 29,7 cm
Collection: Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich
Group show with:
Karim Noureldin, Boris Rebetez, Ugo Rondinone, Roman Signer, Silvia Bächli, Annelise Coste,
Stefan Gritsch, Dominique Lämmli, Peter Roesch, Christoph Rütimann, Charles Wyrsch.
CASINO LUXEMBOURG
The Larsen effect
9.3 - 9.6 2002, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain
ZENTRUM FUR GEGENWARTKUNST LINZ
Der Larsen Effekt - prozeßhafte Resonanzen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
21.12.2001 - 8.2.2002, Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich Linz
Untitled (photo collage), 1998
Color print / 80 x 120 cm
Boris Rebetez' photographs are based on a very simple collage technique. He takes pictures of landscapes from
various magazines, cuts them up, mounts them, photographs and finally enlarges them. This results in a sampling
of impressions suggesting a plausible new reality. Foreground and background, lighting, shadows and objects are
only apparently flowing, until one recognizes the few brutal but virtuosic cuts in the picture. The artist works with
small and precise gestures. The individual landscapes retain their "autonomy", because they are not interlocked,
but rather layered consecutively and horizontally. A logical perspectival sequence is undermined in this way. A post
in the foreground of a picture becomes, in contrast with a meadow landscape, monumentalized, or a street is
miniaturized directly adjacent to a rooftop landscape. Since the autonomous plateaus are next to one another in an
optically harmonious co-existence, the sum of the fragments is read as a unit. This reveals a process of optical
feedback, in that the different interpretations of the part and the whole, the integral part and the separable whole,
can no longer be distinguished.
Group show with:
Sven Augustijnen, Pierre Bismuth, Manon De Boer, Gerhard Dirmoser, Dan Graham, Margarete Jahrmann,
Max Moswitzer, Daniela Keiser, Dieter Kiessling, Ken Lum, Matt Mullican, Josef Pühringer, Boris Rebetez,
Daniel Roth, Simon Starling, Mitja Tusek, Keith Tyson, Peter Zimmermann.
• Curated by Moritz Küng
• Link to exhibition publication:
Der Larsen Effekt, 2002 - Editor: Triton Verlag
PACOS DAS ARTES SAO PAULO
DIAZONAL
9.3 - 9.6 2002, Paços das Artes Sao Paulo
Public space, 2002.
80 university chairs / installation, variable dimension
Group show with:
Paul Casaer, Willem Oorebeek, Boris Rebetez, Robert Suemondt
KONSUMBÄCKEREI SOLOTHURN
Chambresville
01.04 - 04.07 1999
Spectateur, 1999
Projection, 81 slides in loop, spot / installation, variable dimensions
Group show with:
Eric Hattan, Christina Hemauer, Jürg Hugentobler, Hannah Külling, Boris Rebetez, Manuel Stagars and Hanna Züllig
• Curated by Christoph Lichtin
CAN NEUCHATEL
Romain Crellier, Jonathan Monk, Boris Rebetez
18.06 - 6.7 1997
Untitled (photo collage), 1997
Color print / 60 x 97 cm
• Curated by Marc Olivier Wahler
GRAPHISCHE SAMMLUNG DER ETH ZÜRICH
GGeschlossene Gessellschaft
15.01 - 28.02 1997
Abri antiatomique, 1995
Pencil on paper / 21 x 29,7 cm
Collection: Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich
• Groupshow curated by Paul Tanner
MOVING ART STUDIO BRUXELLES
Open Studio
Summer 1996, Moving Art Studio, Brussels
Antenne, 1996 (destroyed)
Wood, aprox. 300 x ø 150 cm
Photocopy: aprox. 150 x 225 cm
HELMHAUS ZÜRICH
5 Abenteuer
02.03 - 28.04.1995, Helmhaus, Zürich
Palier d'appartement, 1993
Painted wood, aluminium / 34 x 58 x 25 cm
Privat collection, Zürich
• Groupshow curated by Simon Maurer
KUNSTHALLE ST-GALLEN
Istvan Balogh, Halter/Gratwohl, Beat Huber, Klaus Tinkel and Boris Rebetez
13 January until 26 February 1995, Kunsthalle St-Gallen
Fish, 1994
Ceramic / variable dimensions (surface aprom. 8 x 8 meters)
Group show with:
Istvan Balogh, Halter/Gratwohl, Beat Huber, Klaus Tinkel and Boris Rebetez
• Curated by Josef-Felix Müller
© Photo credits
Supermodels: Bianca Pedrina
von Bartha 2022: Andreas Zimmermann
Kunstmuseum Solothurn: David Aebi
von Bartha S-Chanf 2018: Ben Koechlin
Osage Art Foundation Hong Kong: Daimao Wong
Fundazion Nairs: Ralph Feiner
Vitrine Gallery: Jonathan Bassett
Bex&Arts: David Gagnebin
Kunsthaus Baselland: Gina Folly
von Bartha Basel: Andreas Zimmermann
von Bartha S-Chanf 2012: Conradin Frei
Kunstraum Riehen: Jannette Mehr
Abbatiale de Bellelay: Daniel Müller
Kunstmuseum Solothurn: Jörg Müller
Etablissement d'en face: Vincent Everarts
Museum für Gegenwartkunst Basel: Martin Bühler
All others: © Boris Rebetez